In this article, I extend Labov’s narrative analysis of personal experience (Labov, 1972, 1997; Labov & Waletzky, 1967/1997) to demonstrate how personal narratives that are taken up and transformed into pieces for public performance work within a reportability continuum that balances the individual storyteller’s perspective while incorporating the voices of the community to which these individuals belong. I use the case of the About Face Youth Theatre, a Chicago-based theatre company that engages lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning youth in the dramaturgical process, to demonstrate how narratives are transformed from highly reportable, personal narratives, to highly credible, generic adaptations, to performances that result in the construction of positive, public identities that expose normalness without sacrificing particularity. This process can provide adolescents who experience stigma in public contexts with the opportunity to understand how they see themselves, how others see them, and how they fit into their communities and to fit these perspectives together into a more coherent sense of self.
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Halverson, Erica Rosenfeld
2009. Shifting learning goals: from competent tool use to participatory media spaces in the emergent design process. Cultural Studies of Science Education 4:1 ► pp. 67 ff.
Halverson, Erica Rosenfeld
2010. Film as Identity Exploration: A Multimodal Analysis of Youth-Produced Films. Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 112:9 ► pp. 2352 ff.
Halverson, Erica Rosenfeld
2012. Participatory Media Spaces. In Games, Learning, and Society, ► pp. 244 ff.
Halverson, Erica Rosenfeld
2013. Digital Art Making as a Representational Process. Journal of the Learning Sciences 22:1 ► pp. 121 ff.
Rosenfeld Halverson, Erica
2010. The Dramaturgical Process as a Mechanism for Identity Development of LGBTQ Youth and Its Relationship to Detypification. Journal of Adolescent Research 25:5 ► pp. 635 ff.
2009. Conceptualizing Identity in Youth Media Arts Organizations: A Comparative Case Study. E-Learning and Digital Media 6:1 ► pp. 23 ff.
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